A nice sketch for The General’s Garden

Usually, at signing events, everyone is in a hurry and a quick sketch is required.
But sometimes, I do have the free time to do a satisfying drawing in a comic book. Here, The General’s Garden, interior pages, with the protagonist, the young mischievous Chaaas.

Coming soon… a new Comic!

Here’s the results of a burst of production last weekend, of my new manga project.

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This concludes the General’s Garden. (In the novels, Chaaas also has an older sister, not present at the time.)

To know more about the characters, visit Chaaas’ universe.

I now have a new webcomic at http://otakuladies.wordpress.com

 

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Lar Chlaan praises his son’s generosity, comparing it to the emblematic Bota tree. Plezar swishes his stick, trapping the young Chaaas at the upper end. “A Bota, hmm?” he says.

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The delay had several causes, among them work, and trying to get more circulation to this  Webcomic.

Chaaas finds to his dismay that the general’s gardener has a good grip on his staff!

It stems from a Michel Vaillant graphic novel I read in childhood. His strong friend Steve Warson was attacked by an angry (but quite older) farmer with a fork. He simply grabs the fork, and the old man tried to pull it back, without success.

 

 

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Intent on avenging his hurt pride, Chaaas picks up Plezar’s heavy stick and lunges at the General’s gardener!

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I tried a more dynamic layout for this page.

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Lar Chlaan ne s’en laisse pas imposer par le jardinier du général!

Le père de Chaaas exerce le métier d’archiviste à Talmur.  Il porte son mini lien (avec l’intelligence centrale de la ville) dans sa poche.

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Lar Chlaan stares back at the bigger Plezar. Chaaas’s father is an archivist.  He wears a minicomp in his breast pocket.

This week Chaaas is out…

Chaaas is sand-sailing near his hometown.

This is a pencil drawing I made for the first Chaaas’Quest novel cover. Chaaas is older on this one.

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This page displays one of the influences on my work, by Naruto’s artist Masashi Kishimoto.  Especially the first panel. (Note, I did not read the magazine Shonen Jump at that stage, but the stunned look on Plezar’s face is derived from a funny expression on Jiraiya in the first Naruto animated series.

And we finally get to know  Chaaas’ father, Lar Chlaan!